• Handbook – RADIOWAVE PROPAGATION INFORMATION FOR PREDICTIONS FOR EARTH-TO-SPACE PATH COMMUNICATIONS – 1996
  • PREFACE
  • TABLE OF CONTENTS
  • CHAPTER 1 – INTRODUCTION
    • 1.1 Relationship of this Handbook to Recommendations of ITU-R Study Group 3
    • 1.2 Application of the Earth-space Handbook
  • CHAPTER 2 – PROPAGATION EFFECTS OF THE TROPOSPHERE AND THE IONOSPHERE
  • CHAPTER 3 – PROPAGATION LOSS
    • 3.1 Attenuation due to atmospheric gases
    • 3.2 Attenuation by precipitation and clouds
    • 3.3 Diversity and spatial features of rain
    • 3.4 Characteristics of precipitation events
    • 3.5 Sand and dust effects
  • CHAPTER 4 – SKY NOISE TEMPERATURE CONTRIBUTIONS
    • 4.1 Atmospheric noise temperature effects on Earth-space paths
    • 4.2 Galactic and other extraterrestrial noise sources
    • 4.3 Noise from the surface of the Earth and man-made sources
    • 4.4 Example problem
  • CHAPTER 5 – PATH DEPOLARIZATION
    • 5.1 Introduction
    • 5.2 Relation between depolarization and attenuation
    • 5.3 Dependence of XPD and XPI on physical processes
    • 5.4 Data relevant to cross-polarization compensation
    • 5.5 Incorporation of path XPD into system XPI
    • 5.6 Example calculation of path XPD
  • CHAPTER 6 – CLEAR AIR EFFECTS
    • 6.1 Loss due to defocusing and wave-front incoherence
    • 6.2 Scintillation and multipath effects
    • 6.3 Propagation delays
    • 6.4 Angle of arrival
  • CHAPTER 7 – TRANSIONOSPHERIC PROPAGATION
    • 7.1 Introduction
    • 7.2 Total Electron Content (TEC)
    • 7.3 Effects due to background ionization
    • 7.4 Effects due to ionization irregularities
    • 7.5 Conclusion
  • CHAPTER 8 – SURFACE REFLECTIONS AND LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS (OF PARTICULAR INTEREST TO MOBILE-SATELLITE SYSTEMS)
    • 8.1 Introduction
    • 8.2 Effects of the Earth's surface
    • 8.3 Local environmental effects
  • CHAPTER 9 – COMBINED EFFECTS MODELLING
    • 9.1 Equiprobable summation
    • 9.2 Convolution
    • 9.3 Temporal segmentation
    • 9.4 Root-Square summing
    • 9.5 Example